Originally Posted by sum_1
A bit surprised about Pujara opening instead of Rahane. The no. 2 position would've made sense for Pujara imho. Feel bad for Rasool, the only player not getting a shot at this series.

Zim's bowling in this series has been decent enough, but the batting was disappointing at least, considering they have some good talented players in the side.

Originally Posted by Gowza
You mean no.3? I thought pujara was an opener in list A

Actually I meant no. 4 or 2 down (mixed it). He's a middle order batsman for his Ranji team Saurashtra. Since he's not the kind of batsman who likes to score in boundaries and in fact likes to build his innings, I think that position would've been more suited for him.

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Originally Posted by sum_1
Actually I meant no. 4 or 2 down (mixed it). He's a middle order batsman for his Ranji team Saurashtra. Since he's not the kind of batsman who likes to score in boundaries and in fact likes to build his innings, I think that position would've been more suited for him.

Probably, he has a very good list A record so obviously knows how to bat in that position.

Not one ODI was even close, very disappointing since Zimbos are the home team. I thought they have improved after their series vs BD but it seems either we play badly there or they only show up for series vs BD.

well a big problem for them is that all their good players leave to live somewhere else, recently news has broken that craig irvine has left zimbabwe, i think to go live in ireland. sean irvine is a good player over in england, gary balanace is a great player, murray goodwin, anthony ireland etc. zimbabwe is a small country, these losses would be big for any country but even bigger for a small one like zimbabwe.

So are Zimbabwe only good when they take on Bangladesh? There was absolutely no fighting spirit this series. Not even a quarter of what they displayed against Bangladesh. Or maybe they are missing the Mangongo effect.